Gentlemen Riders 



hat, and, holding out his hand, said, in English, with a little 

 bow, "We are the Spanish Jockey Club. We wish to shake 

 hands with the English Jockey." And suiting the action to 

 the words, was followed in succession by each of the others. 

 There were just thirty of them ! 



At the subsequent meeting at Seville, Mr. Meysey- 

 Thompson won the Duke of Montpensier's Prize, which was 

 run over hurdles ; and most formidable fences they were, being 

 four feet six inches high, with double top-rails, between the bars 

 of which broom was drawn. The broom towered so high that 

 the horses had to brush through it like a bullfinch, and, more- 

 over, the hurdles were strongly made, and so firmly fixed they 

 could not be knocked down, if they did not break. Nothing 

 had a chance except it was a first-rate fencer, but Plenipo once 

 more gallantly carried Mr. Meysey-Thompson to victory, 

 Everitt being second on Mr. Davies's Marmion. 



AtUre pays autres mcetirs ; and at one of the Seville meetings 

 a curious occurrence took place. The Seville Meeting followed 

 one at Cadiz ; but in consequence of stress of weather the races 

 at the latter were delayed, so the jockeys, after riding at Cadiz, 

 had to leave, together with their friends, immediately after the 

 last race, and travel through the night to be in time for the 

 Seville Meeting the next day. Mr. Meysey-Thompson's party 

 had engaged rooms for sixteen at one of the hotels, and on 

 their arrival at the town at half-past 2 a.m. congratulated them- 

 selves their lodgings had been secured ; but great was their 

 dismay, on arriving at their destination, to find sixteen beds 

 prepared alongside in one large room, without any screen 

 whatever between them, which were expected to be occupied 

 by married couples, unmarried young ladies, and young men. 

 The bachelors were promptly turned out to go and find what 

 quarters they could, which was rather trying in a foreign city 



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